Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 935782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence Ka-Ki |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0653-2089 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Work-integrated learning in non-professional degrees
This study examines how credit-bearing internships embedded in social sciences programmes can foster career readiness and improve graduate employability among undergraduates in Hong Kong’s performance-driven higher education system. Drawing on thematic analysis of longitudinal data from five sources across twelve cohorts (2012–2023), comprising student evaluation surveys, internship partner feedback, faculty reflective records, programme committe…
Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality
This article applies institutional and media content analysis to investigate the legitimation and criminalisation of cross-border trade within the “Southern Chinese Seaboard,” specifically between Taiwan and China and between Hong Kong and mainland China, a region characterised by diverse taxation and legal jurisdictions, as well as rapidly evolving political-economic and regional geo-political dynamics. This study re-evaluates common media portr…
Understanding public confidence in the police within democratic and authoritarian regimes
Studies of public confidence in the police have enabled important insights into the factors responsible for achieving public support. Empirically tested in overwhelmingly democratic nations, there remain questions about the generalizability of this work to different types of political regimes, especially authoritarian nations. Using Wave 7 of the World Values Survey ( n = 38,838) we assess whether predictors of police confidence operate in simila…
Conversion and drift of traditional institutions under democratization
The Household Registration System (HRS) is commonly regarded as an instrument of social control and undemocratic. Paradoxically, it still survives in some electoral democracies with limited calls for its abandonment. This thematic study examines the HRS from a new Asian democracy, Taiwan, and responds to this puzzling phenomenon: why is this system still maintained after democratization? Taiwan has universal suffrage since 1996 but its HRS remain…
The Developmental Social Policy Standstill
In response to the Covid‐19 pandemic, the governments of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea implemented direct cash disbursements to citizens in 2020 and 2021. This paper assesses whether these near‐simultaneous universal cash payout schemes presage a broader transformation in the welfare paradigm of these East Asian economies, traditionally viewed as minimal‐welfare developmental states. Our analysis finds that economic stimulus, rather t…
Imaginary boundary of public policing? a lens from Hong Kong 2019
There is a growing prevalence of privately owned public spaces amid urban development. These private premises, such as shopping malls and school campuses, are typically managed by private security guards, but the police may intervene in exceptional circumstances. Intellectual debates concerning the blurring boundaries between public and private space in policing have emerged in Western democracies, particularly regarding the accountability of pri…
What has changed and why
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the governance and policing frameworks in Hong Kong and Taiwan, examining their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic's public health crisis and the resulting shifts in policing contexts. Hong Kong experienced significant changes in police-citizen relations before the pandemic, notably during the 2019 protests that garnered global media attention and eroded public trust in the government. With the advent…
Professionalism versus democracy? Historical and institutional analysis of police oversight mechanisms in three Asian jurisdictions
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has a tradition for being among the most respected national police organisations globally. More recent political events in Hong Kong have however placed the HKPF in highly visible public order situations. A wide array of political factions have emerged as a consequence of the handover of control in Hong Kong, many of which have involved young people protesting the curtailment of democratic rights. In this paper, …
E‐government and the hurdle of the “digital divide”? Rethinking the responses of the underprivileged in Covid‐19 Hong Kong
The digital divide and insufficient social capital of aging, undereducated, and low‐income nonnetizens are usually explained by the underpopularization of e‐government. This review article moves beyond the mainstream concern over resources and technicalities and seeks to explore the reasons for reluctance, from digital vulnerabilities to e‐service. We examine the varying responses to the three e‐services launched by the Hong Kong government durin…
A government–society confrontation
In legal courts the right to protest is often demarcated by its infringement on other constitutional rights in a typical illustration of graded absolutism when there is conflict between two overlapping sets of negative civil and political rights, with those of speech, expression, and movement culminating in rights to assembly and association on the one hand, and personal liberty and security on the other. The twentieth century ostensibly saw the …
A whole-of-nation approach to Covid-19
This article analyzes Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team, a collective synergy between government and society in fighting COVID-19. We draw on a model of collaborative governance to dissect the collaboration between National Epidemic Prevention Team members; that is, central government, local governments, private enterprises and citizens. We argue that the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, democratic deepening and co…
Fighting Covid-19 in Hong Kong
Indigenous’ or ‘All Stars’
This paper utilizes the controversies in China’s Hong Kong over the non-ethnic representatives to explore the debates on naturalization and the negotiation of nationality. China disallows split loyalties and all non-ethnics must abandon the passport of their original countries in the stringent process of naturalization. Problematically, Hong Kong, a former British colony and a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China,…
From Minimum Wage to Standard Work Hour
This paper aims to highlight the significance of labour issues – namely, the minimum wage (MW) and standard working hours (SWH) – in shaping candidates’ electoral platforms in the 2012 chief executive (CE) election of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) under the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China (PRC). We first offer a brief review of labour politics regarding the MW case as a precursor to the SWH drafting and enactme…
Women Police Officers in Hong Kong
Police work is considered to be a masculine, male-dominated occupation, where studies show that women officers generally tend to play a complementary role. This paper examines how femininity has been articulated in the Hong Kong Police (HKP), which was first established in 1844 and recruited its first female officer in 1949. Early female recruits in the HKP were initially confined to supporting duties, and differential arrangements for male and f…
Fighting Covid-19 in Hong Kong
A whole-of-nation approach to Covid-19
This article analyzes Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team, a collective synergy between government and society in fighting COVID-19. We draw on a model of collaborative governance to dissect the collaboration between National Epidemic Prevention Team members; that is, central government, local governments, private enterprises and citizens. We argue that the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, democratic deepening and co…
Women Police Officers in Hong Kong
Police work is considered to be a masculine, male-dominated occupation, where studies show that women officers generally tend to play a complementary role. This paper examines how femininity has been articulated in the Hong Kong Police (HKP), which was first established in 1844 and recruited its first female officer in 1949. Early female recruits in the HKP were initially confined to supporting duties, and differential arrangements for male and f…
Indigenous’ or ‘All Stars’
This paper utilizes the controversies in China’s Hong Kong over the non-ethnic representatives to explore the debates on naturalization and the negotiation of nationality. China disallows split loyalties and all non-ethnics must abandon the passport of their original countries in the stringent process of naturalization. Problematically, Hong Kong, a former British colony and a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China,…
E‐government and the hurdle of the “digital divide”? Rethinking the responses of the underprivileged in Covid‐19 Hong Kong
The digital divide and insufficient social capital of aging, undereducated, and low‐income nonnetizens are usually explained by the underpopularization of e‐government. This review article moves beyond the mainstream concern over resources and technicalities and seeks to explore the reasons for reluctance, from digital vulnerabilities to e‐service. We examine the varying responses to the three e‐services launched by the Hong Kong government durin…
From Minimum Wage to Standard Work Hour
This paper aims to highlight the significance of labour issues – namely, the minimum wage (MW) and standard working hours (SWH) – in shaping candidates’ electoral platforms in the 2012 chief executive (CE) election of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) under the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China (PRC). We first offer a brief review of labour politics regarding the MW case as a precursor to the SWH drafting and enactme…
Women Police Officers in Hong Kong
Police work is considered to be a masculine, male-dominated occupation, where studies show that women officers generally tend to play a complementary role. This paper examines how femininity has been articulated in the Hong Kong Police (HKP), which was first established in 1844 and recruited its first female officer in 1949. Early female recruits in the HKP were initially confined to supporting duties, and differential arrangements for male and f…
Indigenous’ or ‘All Stars’
This paper utilizes the controversies in China’s Hong Kong over the non-ethnic representatives to explore the debates on naturalization and the negotiation of nationality. China disallows split loyalties and all non-ethnics must abandon the passport of their original countries in the stringent process of naturalization. Problematically, Hong Kong, a former British colony and a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China,…
Fighting Covid-19 in Hong Kong
A government–society confrontation
In legal courts the right to protest is often demarcated by its infringement on other constitutional rights in a typical illustration of graded absolutism when there is conflict between two overlapping sets of negative civil and political rights, with those of speech, expression, and movement culminating in rights to assembly and association on the one hand, and personal liberty and security on the other. The twentieth century ostensibly saw the …
A whole-of-nation approach to Covid-19
This article analyzes Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team, a collective synergy between government and society in fighting COVID-19. We draw on a model of collaborative governance to dissect the collaboration between National Epidemic Prevention Team members; that is, central government, local governments, private enterprises and citizens. We argue that the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, democratic deepening and co…
Professionalism versus democracy? Historical and institutional analysis of police oversight mechanisms in three Asian jurisdictions
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has a tradition for being among the most respected national police organisations globally. More recent political events in Hong Kong have however placed the HKPF in highly visible public order situations. A wide array of political factions have emerged as a consequence of the handover of control in Hong Kong, many of which have involved young people protesting the curtailment of democratic rights. In this paper, …
E‐government and the hurdle of the “digital divide”? Rethinking the responses of the underprivileged in Covid‐19 Hong Kong
The digital divide and insufficient social capital of aging, undereducated, and low‐income nonnetizens are usually explained by the underpopularization of e‐government. This review article moves beyond the mainstream concern over resources and technicalities and seeks to explore the reasons for reluctance, from digital vulnerabilities to e‐service. We examine the varying responses to the three e‐services launched by the Hong Kong government durin…
Imaginary boundary of public policing? a lens from Hong Kong 2019
There is a growing prevalence of privately owned public spaces amid urban development. These private premises, such as shopping malls and school campuses, are typically managed by private security guards, but the police may intervene in exceptional circumstances. Intellectual debates concerning the blurring boundaries between public and private space in policing have emerged in Western democracies, particularly regarding the accountability of pri…
What has changed and why
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the governance and policing frameworks in Hong Kong and Taiwan, examining their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic's public health crisis and the resulting shifts in policing contexts. Hong Kong experienced significant changes in police-citizen relations before the pandemic, notably during the 2019 protests that garnered global media attention and eroded public trust in the government. With the advent…
Understanding public confidence in the police within democratic and authoritarian regimes
Studies of public confidence in the police have enabled important insights into the factors responsible for achieving public support. Empirically tested in overwhelmingly democratic nations, there remain questions about the generalizability of this work to different types of political regimes, especially authoritarian nations. Using Wave 7 of the World Values Survey ( n = 38,838) we assess whether predictors of police confidence operate in simila…
Conversion and drift of traditional institutions under democratization
The Household Registration System (HRS) is commonly regarded as an instrument of social control and undemocratic. Paradoxically, it still survives in some electoral democracies with limited calls for its abandonment. This thematic study examines the HRS from a new Asian democracy, Taiwan, and responds to this puzzling phenomenon: why is this system still maintained after democratization? Taiwan has universal suffrage since 1996 but its HRS remain…
The Developmental Social Policy Standstill
In response to the Covid‐19 pandemic, the governments of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea implemented direct cash disbursements to citizens in 2020 and 2021. This paper assesses whether these near‐simultaneous universal cash payout schemes presage a broader transformation in the welfare paradigm of these East Asian economies, traditionally viewed as minimal‐welfare developmental states. Our analysis finds that economic stimulus, rather t…
Work-integrated learning in non-professional degrees
This study examines how credit-bearing internships embedded in social sciences programmes can foster career readiness and improve graduate employability among undergraduates in Hong Kong’s performance-driven higher education system. Drawing on thematic analysis of longitudinal data from five sources across twelve cohorts (2012–2023), comprising student evaluation surveys, internship partner feedback, faculty reflective records, programme committe…
Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality
This article applies institutional and media content analysis to investigate the legitimation and criminalisation of cross-border trade within the “Southern Chinese Seaboard,” specifically between Taiwan and China and between Hong Kong and mainland China, a region characterised by diverse taxation and legal jurisdictions, as well as rapidly evolving political-economic and regional geo-political dynamics. This study re-evaluates common media portr…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works)